TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.'s new President and CEO Fred Tomczyk received compensation the company valued at $13.5 million in fiscal year 2008, just before taking over the top job at the online brokerage.
As he's done for the last decade, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took home his customary $1 annual salary in 2008, but the economic meltdown and Apple's falling stock price whacked half a billion dollars off the value of his personal holdings in the company.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. agreed to a five-year contract with Chief Executive Officer Aubrey McClendon that includes a one-time $75 million "incentive award," the company disclosed Wednesday in a federal filing.
Banks that have their hands out in Washington this year were handing out multimillion-dollar rewards to their executives last year.
For the second time, hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel III is being sent to a Massachusetts federal prison.
Putting together a resume that reads like a list of diet don'ts — pizza, ice cream and doughnuts — Papa John's chief executive Nigel Travis will take over the top post at Dunkin' Brands Inc. next year.
Major League Soccer's deputy commissioner is leaving to become the chief executive of Arsenal, one of the top teams in the English Premier League.
- Washington's presidential ping-pong game plays out every four or eight years as incoming presidents reverse the policies of their predecessors.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, unexpectedly announced Friday that its chief executive will retire in February and be replaced by the head of its international division.
The state agency that promotes tourism to Hawaii said Tuesday it would pay its disgraced former president more than $290,000, most as a "resignation payment," after he was heavily criticized for forwarding offensive e-mails to friends from his work computer.
The executive who succeeded Jay-Z as the head of hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound near Atlanta, police said Sunday.
The head of the state's tourism agency has resigned after coming under fire for forwarding racist, sexist and pornographic e-mails.
In a Sept. 24 story about the fiscal 2008 pay package for Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Sun's share of the computer server market fell 7 percent in the last quarter, and that IBM Corp.'s share rose nearly 14 percent.
Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz received an $11.1 million pay package in the server and software maker's most recent fiscal year.
A hedge-fund swindler accused of faking his own death is not yet competent to enter his long-expected guilty plea for skipping out on a 20-year prison term, his attorney said Tuesday.
A former chief executive of construction firm KBR Inc. has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in connection with the company's natural gas operations in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004.
Software company VMware Inc. said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development, Richard Sarwal, has resigned.
At least 17 Smithsonian Institution executives with six-figure salaries will see future pay cuts — many in the tens of thousands of dollars — under reforms adopted by the museum complex.
Procter & Gamble Co. Chief Executive A.G. Lafley's total annual pay fell by nearly 15 percent after the company's internal financial performance slowed at the end of a three-year incentive plan, a regulatory filing Friday shows.
The former top attorney at Apple Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle federal regulators' charges that she altered company records to conceal improper backdating of stock options for senior executives including Steve Jobs.
Stephen Sanger got a nearly 14 percent raise in his final year as the chairman and chief executive of General Mills Inc., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A hedge-fund swindler accused of faking his own suicide tried to plead guilty Wednesday for going on the lam, but his case was postponed for six weeks after he told the judge that his drug therapy was affecting his ability to think clearly.
A hedge fund cheat who tried to fake his own death and spent nearly a month as a fugitive told a judge Thursday that he really did try to commit suicide while on the run, saying he thought it would be better to do himself in than turn himself in.
McKesson Corp. Chairman John Hammergren's compensation rose to more than $26.8 million as the nation's largest prescription drug distributor saw another year of record profits.
If Samuel Israel III had reported to prison like he was supposed to, he would probably be washing dishes, mopping floors or serving meals to fellow inmates today. And he might be getting up at 4:30 a.m. to do it.
President-elect Obama's first appointments to the Justice, State and Defense Departments mark no radical change. Rather, they return to a centrist consensus familiar from the Clinton years.
Blogging about the Bush administration sometimes feels like a graduate course in Orwellian concepts.
Loyalty is a wonderful human quality and a necessary political one. No president would think of moving into the White House without known and trusted advisers such as David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett.
Pfizer's Nigerian Nightmare Nicole Perlroth, 12.08.08, 12:00 AM EST After years of legal maneuvering, Pfizer may soon face its Nigerian guinea pigs in court. pic Sani Madaki, a 16-year-old plaintiff, claims to be partially paralyzed as a result of the 1996 Pfizer trial.
The Hatch Act, which regulates the political activity of federal employees, isn't as restrictive as some workers think. It might surprise them that the law even allows wearing and displaying campaign items on the job -- as long as it's after the election.
As Detroit's crumbling auto industry asks Congress for a bailout, Chrysler is in the awkward position of paying about $30 million in retention bonuses to keep top executives while the company cuts thousands of jobs.
A senior Swiss executive at the banking giant UBS has been indicted in an investigation of the bank and its offshore private-banking services for wealthy Americans, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors for the United States attorney's office in the Southern District …
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama proved to be one of the most formidable political candidates of the modern era.
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the UK equality watchdog, told the Times that a British equivalent of Barack Obama would find it extremely difficult to become prime minister.
Excerpt: Word is the economy is not doing so hot. That can mean that even if you've been with the company for a while, you're not necessarily going to be there tomorrow.
The appointment of Peter Mandelson as the new Business Secretary provides another apt comparison between the way the Kingdom and the United States operate constitutionally.
"Your company is now bankrupt and out country is in a state of crisis...You get to keep $480m. I have a very basic question - is that fair? Is that fair, for a CEO of a company that's now bankrupt, to make that kind of money? It's just unimaginable to so many people." ...
Vice President Dick Cheney must preserve a broad range of records from his time in office, a federal judge ordered Saturday, ruling in favor of a private watchdog group.
This is my recent interview with Barry Zweibel, a Master Certified Coach, specializing in Executive Coaching and Life Coaching... he will be a joint contributor in the Coaching Series starting this week.
A few years ago, I experienced a number of personal setbacks, all the while getting ahead in my career. I lost someone who I thought I couldn't live without, so I reached out to the one person who knew us both and I thought could help me.
"This is the first time when the president of the United States really wanted something in wartime, and tried to overrule the Department of Justice, and the law held," said Goldsmith, after studying similar conflicts under Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Gordon Brown's premiership is in deep trouble as Labour MPs plot his downfall. And who does he have lunch with. None other than his avowed mentor, Lady Thatcher- a woman despised by many Labour politicians.
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Andrew Halcro, a former legislator in Alaska state government who ran against Sarah Palin for the office of Alaska governor, has obtained a listing of some of the many e-mails that were sent to and from Gov. Palin during the period of January '08 to April '08.
A former chief executive of construction firm KBR Inc. has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in connection with the company's natural gas operations in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004.
Kristi Mailloux, president of Molly Maid, a maid franchisor in Ann Arbor, Mich., says she never initiates a fist bump, but reciprocates if offered. She says she hopes it never replaces the handshake except, perhaps, in the flu season.
In coming to the conclusion that the President of the United States, his Vice-President, and many of those around him, such as the Secretary of State, the President's advisers, and others are actually a like minded group of sociopaths, one has to take a look at both the actions o …
Civic Republicans know well that a tactic favoured by populist governments who wish to increase their hold over the country is to leapfrog over established institutional structures, such as local authorities and professional groups, and appeal directly to the people.